@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2025-12-29 15:24:49
@… I have numerous installations of FreeBSD as VirtualBox guests, with snapshots taken by VirtualBox.
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2025-12-29 15:24:49
@dde@social.tchncs.de2025-11-27 13:50:03
So, bin jetzt endlich VirtualBox los (Migration auf libvirtd mit Virt-Manager).
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2025-11-28 00:49:07
KDE Plasma with Wayland on FreeBSD in Oracle VirtualBox
https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1p8gytd/kde_plasma_with_wayland_on_freebsd_in_oracle/
I get SDDM, but not the Wayland option.
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2025-11-29 19:43:28
@… 👆
For Plasma (Wayland) on FreeBSD to work in VirtualBox, is sysfb a missing piece of the jigsaw?
<https://github.com/freebsd/drm-kmod/issues/389
@zachleat@zachleat.com2025-10-24 17:45:34
as a security precaution I am now running all Eleventy projects submitted through support channels via a Virtual Machine (Ubuntu on VirtualBox)
@TFG@social.linux.pizza2025-11-21 06:58:14
Is it just me or is kernel 6.12.57 in #debian13 borked?
#virtualbox freezes when starting up a VM. The host system then hanging at poweroff/reboot... and ultimately ended up kernel panicking after hard-reset.
went back to 6.12.48 and all is fine..
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2025-10-27 06:06:32
> … I vaguely recalled seeing 2.3.1_1 in one of my VirtualBox snapshots, …
Now I simply can not find 2.3.1_1 in quarterly or latest for 14 or 15. Looking at the date of commit 12d2f0b (Friday), I guess that the bootstrap was from local FreeBSD-15.0-BETA3-amd64-dvd1.iso (not online).
Digging online was not a waste of time, I stumbled into something surprising:
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2025-12-27 17:50:40
@… @… I'll test in VirtualBox …
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2025-11-26 19:48:28
@…
Cinnamon and MATE should be fine. System sounds are audible on FreeBSD 15.0-RC4.
VirtualBox host: Kubuntu.
@…
#FreeBSD
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2025-10-30 06:34:18
End result: perfect, as far as I can tell.
What I thought was a bug was, in fact, an enhancement. For VirtualBox, it's no longer necessary to blacklist a module:
<https://www.virtualbox.org//ticket/22248#comment:5>
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2025-12-19 21:24:22
Solved.
<https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1pdsyfo/freebsdbase_major_upgrades_pkgstatic_no_trusted/nty3dqx/> includes my rough notes from apparently successful major upgrades in VirtualBox
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2025-10-12 19:13:29
An annoying bug in Plasma 6.4.5 on FreeBSD 15.0 in VirtualBox.
Not present with 6.3.4 on Kubuntu 25.04. If it's reproducible on 25.10, I might report upstream.
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QuestingQuokka/ReleaseNotes/Kubuntu#Plasma_6.4> "… …
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2025-10-07 16:43:56
@… incidentally I found your desktop script useful (again) a few days ago, on a VirtualBox guest where the guest additions were not packaged.
Thanks
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2025-10-04 02:00:27
bsdconfig startup
― it's sometimes easier to remember those two words, than to consult date(1).
For the umpteen VirtualBox guests and snapshots where I carelessly, or intentionally, omitted both ntp options.
<https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?qu